EVENT CALENDAR - 2009
Sl. No. Name of the Fair/Festival Day and Month as per Lunar Calendar Eleven days preceding Pausa Purnima Makar Sankranti Magha Sukla Panchami Magha Sukla Saptami One week from Magha Sukla Saptami Magha Sukla Chaturdashi Falguna Krushna Chaturdashi Falguna Purnima and the day following 2nd and 3rd Tuesday of Chaitra Chaitra Sukla Astami Chaitra Sukla Navami Last Tuesday of Chaitra Three days preceding Maha Bishuba Sankranti Three days preceding Maha Bishuba Sankranti Baisakha Sukla Chaturdashi Date and month 1-11 January Important places of observance Bargarh (Distr. Bargarh)
1.
Dhanu Yatra Folk Dance Festival Makar Mela Kalahandi Utsav Saraswati Puja Adivasi Mela (Tribal Festival) Magha Saptami
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
4 - 6 January 14 January 14-17 January 31 January 26–31 January 1 –2 February
Sambalpur Atri, Kalijai (Chilika), Jagatsinghpur, Jashipur, etc Bhawanipatna Throughout Orissa Bhubaneswar Chandrabhaga (Konark)
8.
Khandagiri Mela
2 –8 February
Khandagiri-Udayagiri
9. 10. 11.
Joranda Mela Kalinga Mahotsav Maha Shivaratri Konark Dance and Music Festival Dola & Holi Taratarini Yatra Ashokastami Sriram Navami Jhamu Yatra Utkal Divas Chaitra Parba
8 February 4 - 5 February 23 February
Joranda (Dist.Dhenkanal) Dhauli, Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar, Kapilas, Mahendragiri, Sarankul, Aradi, Huma, Khiching,etc. Konark Throughout Orissa Taratarini Pitha (Dist. Ganjam) Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar, Odagaon and Saptasajya Kakatpur (Dist.Puri) Bhubaneswar and other places Baripada (Dist. Mayurbhanj) Chandaneswar (Dist-Balasore) Nrusimhanath and Harishankar
12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
19 –23 February 11 –12 March 17 & 24 March 3 April 3 April 19 April 1 April
19. Chhow Festival 20. Chadak Mela Nrusimhanath Mela
11 –13 April
11 –13 April
21.
7 May
22. 23. 24.
Sitalasasthi Snana Yatra Raja Parba
Jyestha Sukla Sasthi Jyestha Purnima One day before and after Raja Sankranti
29 May 7 June 13 –15 June
Sambalpur Puri Puri, Cuttack, Keonjhar and other places Puri,Kendrapara, Baripada, Berhampur and throughout Orissa Puri and Ali (Kendrapara Throughout Orissa Paradeep Throughout Orissa Orissa in general and western part of Orissa in particular Orissa in general and Cuttack in particular Dhenkanal and kendrapara Town Nawarangapur Rourkela Throughout Orissa Sakhigopal (Dist-Puri) Dhabaleswar (Dist-Cuttack) Cuttack, Paradeep, Konark & Balugaon (Chilika)
25.
Rath Yatra
Asadha Sukla Dwitiya Sraban Sukla Dasami to Purnami Kanya Sankranti Bhadrab Sukla Chaturthi Bhadrab Sukla Panchami Aswina Sukla Saptami to Dasami Aswina Purnima Kartika Amabasya Kartika Sukla Navami Kartika Sukla Chaturdashi Kartika Purnima -
24 June
26. 27. 28.
Jhulana Yatra Biswakarma Puja Ganesh Puja
31 July- 6 August 17 September 23 August
29.
Nuakhai
24 August
30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
Durga Puja Gajalaxmi Puja (Kumar Purnima) Mondei Vedavyas Sangeet Nrutya Utsav Deepavali Anla Navami Bada Osha Bali Yatra Parab (Tribal Festival) Beach Festival Konark Dance Festival
25 –28 October 3 –9 October 1-3 November 1-5 November 17 October 27 October 1 November 2 November
16-18 November Koraput 23- 27 November Puri
-
1 –5 December
Konark